Foundations of Intelligent Systems: 9th International Symposium, Ismis'96, Zakopane, Poland, June (9-13), 1996. Proceedings (Paperback, 1996)

Putting objects to work on a massive scale.- Approximate and commonsense reasoning: From theory to practice.- Cooperative information systems engineering.- Towards a Worldwide Knowledge base extended abstract.- Data mining and knowledge discovery in business databases.- Learning composite concepts in description logics: A first step.- Comparison of conceptual graphs for modelling knowledge of multiple experts.- Semantical considerations for knowledge base updates.- Partial evaluation in Constraint Logic Programming.- The AQ17-DCI system for data-driven constructive induction and its application to the analysis of world economics.- Induction of classification rules from imperfect data.- Induction of expert system rules from databases based on rough set theory and Resampling methods.- Mining patterns at each scale in massive data.- On evolving intelligence.- Intelligent mutation rate control in canonical genetic algorithms.- A fine-grained parallel evolutionary program for concept induction.- Evolutionary exploration of search spaces.- Evolutionary computation: One project, many directions.- Signed formula logic programming: Operational semantics and applications (extended abstract).- Automating proofs of integrity constraints in situation calculus.- Towards programming in default logic.- A sound and complete fuzzy logic system using Zadeh's implication operator.- Meeting the deadline: On the formal specification of temporal deontic constraints.- Validity queries and completeness queries.- Explanation for Cooperative Information Systems.- Toward intelligent representation of database content.- Reducing information systems with uncertain attributes.- Object and dependency oriented programming in FLO.- Knowledge simplification.- A model-based approach to consistency-checking.- Resource-based vs. task-based approaches for scheduling problems.- A Fuzzy Behaviorist Approach to sensor-based robot control.- Knowledge-based fuzzy neural networks.- Coevolutionary game theoretic multi-agent systems.- Searching for features defined by hyperplanes.- Inductive database design.- Enhancing query processing of information systems.- Structuring and retrieval of the complex predicate arguments proper to the NKRL conceptual language.- On the handling of imperfect data in relational database systems from null values to possibility distributions.- Modified component valuations in Valuation Based systems as a way to optimize query processing.- Learning for decision making: The FRD approach and a comparative study.- The application of rough sets-based data mining technique to differential diagnosis of meningoenchepahlitis.- A rough set framework for data mining of prepositional default rules.- An empirical study on the incompetence of attribute selection criteria.- Locally finite, proper and complete operators for refining Datalog programs.- Forest fire management with Negoplan.- An architecture for a deductive Fuzzy Relational Database.- A multi-step process for discovering, managing and refining strong functional relations hidden in databases.- An architecture and methodology for the design and development of Technical Information Systems.- Explaining explanation closure.- PAC-learning logic programs under the closed-world assumption.- Planning, truth criteria and the systematic approach to action and change.- Automated inductive reasoning as a support of deductive reasoning in a user-independent automation of inductive theorem proving.- Semantic query optimization for bottom-up evaluation.- Dynamically changing behavior: An agent-oriented view to modeling intelligent information systems.- A multi-layer architecture for knowledge-based system synthesis.- MuRaLi: An architecture for multiple reasoning.- Heterogeneous view integration via sketches and equations.- DLAB: A declarative language bias formalism.- Knowledge discovery in databases and data mining.- Learning with noise in engineering domains.- Hierarchical conceptual clustering in a first